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One Eleven restaurant was closed yesterday, cleaning up damage done by an overnight burglary. Someone broke into the store through a basement door, cut alarm cables, disconnected cameras, stole a small amount of money, and helped himself to money from charity bracelet sales.
A suspect, 20-year-old former employee Casey Darling, was later arrested at the Morgan Motel where he currently resides. People who know Darling say he lived with LaFayette City Manager Frank Etheridge for a time due to being friends with Etheridge’s son but was kicked out (and fired from One Eleven) due to alleged drug use. Darling’s personal Facebook says he was “Manager/Barista” at the restaurant.
- WQCH Radio, 09/19/2012: “‘DETECTIVE MEEKS EMPHASIZED THAT MORE ARRESTS ARE POSSIBLE AS THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES. HE SAID THE OWNER OF ONE-ELEVEN, MIKE LOVELADY, WAS ‘DISAPPOINTED’ WHEN POLICE TOLD HIM THAT SOME OF THE STOLEN ITEMS WERE FOUND IN DARLING’S POSSESSION. THE OWNER TOLD POLICE HE HAD ‘BEEN TRYING TO HELP’ THE MAN.”
Walker Co Schools says football players will continue to eat pre-game meals at churches, and doing so is legal if all they do is eat a meal. Freedom From Religion Foundation disagrees, saying it’s illegal to take students to a church for any purpose, even if nothing “religious” happens there.
Some of the original complaints made by FFRF (like students being preached to) needed to be checked, but this seems to be grasping at straws. If the students are not engaging in a religious activity, there should be no problem with using a church space for a meal.
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